Gabby Giffords to bring gun campaign to Ohio

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, will embark on a gun-violence prevention tour that includes a stop in Ohio on the Fourth of July.

The "Rights and Responsibilities Tour," will start in Nevada on July 1 and make stops in Alaska, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio through July 7. The location for the Ohio stop has not been announced yet.

Giffords and Kelly are co-founders of the gun-violence prevention group Americans for Responsible Solutions, which advocates responsible gun policies. Giffords was critically wounded when shot in the head on January of 2011 near Tucson in an attack by a gunman that killed six and injured 13.

In a statement announcing the tour, Kelly said, "I've been around guns my whole life and I know that as an American, my right to own a firearm exists hand in hand with my obligation to be a responsible gun owner and to do my part to make sure guns don't fall into the hands of criminals or dangerously mentally ill people."

"Sen. Portman represents a state that knows both the value of our Second Amendment rights and the everyday tragedies of gun violence," Kelly said. "He can support common-sense policies like backgrouind checks that are critical to law enforcement and that enhance the rights of gun owners."